Quote of the Day
"Young people are getting educated about trading, investing and the markets…just not like you were."
(Howard Lindzon)
Markets
- An assessment of the Treasury bond bear market. (morningstar.com)
- Since the beginning of 2021 there has been a pick up in selling in the last hour of trading. (sentimentrader.com)
- Just how ridiculous is it for a multi-billionaire to blow up their fortune trading stocks on leverage? (thereformedbroker.com)
Strategy
- Rinse and repeat: the story of markets is one of momentum and mean reversion. (compoundadvisors.com)
- Recessions are good at re-shuffling the stock market's winners and losers. (awealthofcommonsense.com)
Crypto
- Willem Buiter, "Simply put, Bitcoin and other proof-of-work cryptocurrencies are an environmental disaster." (project-syndicate.org)
- Why there are costs to the SEC not approving a Bitcoin ETF. (forbes.com)
Offices
- More big companies are looking to reduce their office footprints post-pandemic. (wsj.com)
- The future of the office is going to look different. (nytimes.com)
- Hybrid work schemes are going to be a work in progress. (washingtonpost.com)
Media
- Spotify ($SPOT) is getting into the live audio game with the acquisition of Locker Room. (axios.com)
- Newsletter company Substack just raised a new round of capital led by a16z. (techcrunch.com)
- STAT News traffic surged in pandemic. (niemanlab.org)
- DraftKings ($DKNG) is buying sports betting media outfit VSiN. (sportico.com)
- Cameo is now a Unicorn. (wsj.com)
ARK Invest
- A Q&A with Cathie Wood about the strategy behind the ARK Space Exploration and Innovation ETF ($ARKX). (etf.com)
- What's in the new ARK Space Exploration and Innovation ETF ($ARKX). (ft.com)
Fund management
- BlackRock ($BLK) has the world’s strongest asset management brand per the 2021 Fund Brand 50 study. (institutionalinvestor.com)
- Why you should expect to see more mutual fund to ETF conversions. (thinkadvisor.com)
Housing
- There is plenty of housing market weirdness, but we are NOT in a housing bubble. (ritholtz.com)
- The January Case-Shiller numbers showed a 11.2% annual rise in home prices. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- If you squint you can see an inflection in home inventories. (bonddad.blogspot.com)
- How do celebrities buy houses outside of the glare of the public eye? (vice.com)
Inflation
- We really won't know the true trajectory of inflation until pandemic-induced supply issues abate. (bloomberg.com)
- Lumber prices are still sitting at all-time highs. (calculatedriskblog.com)
- Corn prices are on the rise in anticipation of increased ethanol demand. (wsj.com)
Earlier on Abnormal Returns
- Research links: a fair worry. (abnormalreturns.com)
- On the importance of owning your own audience. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you missed in our Monday linkfest. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Adviser links: so many unknowns. (abnormalreturns.com)
- What you should do to maximize the sum total of your life experiences. (abnormalreturns.com)
- Are you a financial adviser looking for some out-of-the-box thinking? Then check out our weekly e-mail newsletter. (newsletter.abnormalreturns.com)
